Report of the Working Party on the Recruitment and Training of Nurses.

Date:
1947
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Credit: Report of the Working Party on the Recruitment and Training of Nurses. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Estimated distribution of qualifications of nursing staffs in the hospitals and public health services of Great Britain lificati Mental All Public Qualifications Hospitals | Hospitals | Health Percentage | Percentage | Percentage 1... SekN..OnLY.. a. i 1:8 13-1 3°3 2. S.R.N. with Supplementary* or other qualification 3:3 4-4 cs 3. One or more Supplementary* registrations spe se 1-5 2°4 16 4, S.R.N. and S.C.M.} .. ie | 10°3 38-9 5. S.C.M. only or with _ Supplementary or other qualification .. es ; 0-1 0-6 7:8 6. R.M.P.A. only 45-8 10°3 0:2 7. Tuberculosis or Orthopedic Certificates — L-1e 0-4 8. Students, pupils, assistant or other nurses .. 45-2 57-3 30:4 9. Unspecified : | eae 0:6 0-2 TOTAL 34 ad es i Mca aps 100-0.» 100-0 100-0 * The term “‘ Supplementary ” refers to registration on the Supplementary Registers of the General Nursing Councils. + Including those who also have Supplementary or other qualifications. + About three-quarters have the Tuberculosis Association Certificate. 47. In the public health field, apart from the proportion of “ S.R.N. only ”— 13 per cent.—the distribution of qualifications, as might be expected, differs markedly from that in hospitals. The biggest single category in the public health field comprises district nurses and midwives and a large proportion of these are both State Registered Nurses and Certified Midwives. The proportion in public health who combine a general training in nursing with a training in midwifery is nearly 4 times as high as in the hospital field. A feature in the above Table which is of some interest is the proportion—30 per cent.—of unqualified nurses in the public health field ; most of these are employed in industry or nurseries. 48. We estimate that at each level of nursing staff in Be there are the proportions shown in the Table which follows. TABLE XI p Estimated percentage distribution of hospital nursing staffs according to status Status . Percentage Matrons and administrative staff . . A a = 6:5 Ward and departmental sisters* .. 34 = ‘fe 13:1 Staff Nurses ae ee aX 17-7 Student Nurses and pupil midwives “a ee A 38:1 Assistant and other nursest os ok a Ss 24-6 TOTAL ove a oe ra5 ae 100-0 * Including some 1,100 sister tutors and about 1,000 theatre sisters. + Including nurses with certificates of nursing bodies other than the G.N.Cs., C.M.Bs., or the R.M.P.A. 9